How to find the Current Path, in Windows Application

pashitech

Hi all, i have developed an windows application where in which, i want the current path where the project dll is residing, i mean, here I'm refering to an XML file in the user control like(@"..\\..\xmlfile.xml"); but this path is taking to the application path[Two Up] --after i built this application to an .exe and excute its giving FileNotFound Excpetion.so, i want the current path where the dll is residing, Please help me. Prashanth

Muammar

private string CurrentPath = Environment.CurrentDirectory.ToString();

But watch out when using FileDialoges, it can give you the directory of the file/directory you choose.

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Stefan Troschuetz

Take a look at the Application.StartupPath property.

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Wayne Phipps

Please be aware that Application.StartupPath returns the path of the application that started the executable. See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.startuppath.aspx This path is not necessaraly YOUR application. If someone creates a laucncher for your application, if would return the path to their application not yours and also does not include the executable name. The better method would be:

string path = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName( System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase );

Hope this helps.

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Noman Aftab

Application.StartUpPath will not work for projects having output type as 'class library' use Environment.CurrentDirectory instead

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Wayne Phipps

A similar problem exists when using Environment.CurrentDirectory as the current directory is not necessarily the folder in which your application resides. You can test this yourself by creating a console application containing the following code:

		public static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			Console.WriteLine("Current Directory: " + Environment.CurrentDirectory.ToString() );
			Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
			Console.ReadKey( true );
		}

Now if you run the code, it does as you would expect. But if you open your applications folder in explorer then right-click and 'create a shortcut', you can edit the properties of the shortcut and change the 'Start in' parameter to 'C:\'. When you then run the application using the shortcut, the current directory is set to 'C:\' and not that of your application. Please see my previous post for the correct method.

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